When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture.

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.

Knowledge is a sage’s best friend

The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic—a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall.

Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it.

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, In the beginning was the word. In the same way, your words have creative power.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.