I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

God is the Father of Jesus Christ.

.......Love is such a biological feeling, which kills, without killing you biologically.

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization’s improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.