Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

The sky is not the limit, but my thoughts are.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

I'm very careful about saying who would and wouldn't go to heaven. I don't know.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.