I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.

As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.

The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.