We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.