No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

I'm not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!

All of us have times when we think we are ugly,but all.of us have a unique beauty others do not have.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.