Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Know who you are, what your potential is and press towards it with all that you have within you

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

The Gates of Heaven and the Gates of Hell are the same gates. It just depends which side you're standing on when you walk through.

In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.

Do you want to change the world?Then change yourself first.Do you want to change yourself?Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

When their children flourish almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.