In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

The real me: A woman who continues to blossom into her authentic self.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Success never needs an excuse.

No trust is to be placed in women.

In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.