I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

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.

The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.

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

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

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