When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me.

Farrell's Bar in Brooklyn had urinals so large they looked like shower stalls for Toulouse-Lautrec.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.