My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other, ' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not trying to do better, to be better, does make us fools.

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.