The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

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.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

Life is too short to dwell in the negativity all the time.

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.

It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

It's choice that makes us human.

...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.