If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

Act as though it is impossible to fail.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.