I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Wait until you see him up on a horse

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

Where you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.

Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.