Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

There is no one who takes care of us as lovingly as our mother does. She is our living God.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.