Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.

The man whose conscience never troubles him must have it pretty well trained.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

The idea of being on television is to wear your T-shirt so people see it and maybe buy it.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.