I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

If anything I urge you to live bravely and beyond your own comfort zone.

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.

Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while... It destroys before negotiations!

If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.

People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.

A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.