If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.

I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

And it feels like, finally.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.