Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.