I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

Thinking before writing how I feel. That's how I'm able to write all the lies and wrongs. How else can one write something like a fake smile ?

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.

The Lybian army is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.