They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

The best proof of love is trust.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Plastic bags are bad and for the most part unnecessary.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

Invest your life in what you love.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.