Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

No gods or demons would stop him in his quest of being reunited with her.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

I'm a procrastinator. That's a pretty bad habit.

When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius, as far as I was concerned, were not that.