The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Who runs the world? Girls.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.