Wait until you see him up on a horse

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.

Being interested in a woman is quite another matter from being in love with one.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.

I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.