Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.

Real men don't buy girls-they protect them. We're recruiting real men who have the courage to stand up against this issue.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup.

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.

You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue.

There's a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We're all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late '80s. As if desire is not a good thing.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

Choice is our point of power.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

The good that men do lives after them.

Never settle for average.

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.