That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

Successful innovations become conventions.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!