Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

What gives me strength is thinking about my children.

Being a star and having money do not make for a happy person.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?

If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

My love of singing is hereditary.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.