Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.

A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.

If you can't handle your neurosis, your neurosis will handle you.

If it hurts, it isn't love.

Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

It's not love if it hurts.

If it hurts it isn't love.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

[Working with Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.

You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

I don't think there is much American music.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.