Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

If you're a writer, you're always working.

Some people meet you for a reason, while others meet you to stay there in your life.

This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away

Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.