If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?