Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

There should be a healthy ‘stubbornness’, assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.

The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.