People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands

If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

Every government is always growing corrupt.