For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

I hate the sound of the world outside. Because everybody here can't wait to come and say goodbye...

The only approval that's worth seeking is that of your positive inner-self.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

What then is your duty? What the day demands.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.