I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact.

It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.