My books have all generated controversy.

It is horrid to smirk.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

I'd rather die holding on to the love I believe in, than to live embracing a love that's a lie.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise.

Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan.

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!