to be soft is to be powerful

what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

you must understand the difference between want and need you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

accept yourself as you were designed

other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds

i have what i have and i am happy i've lost what i've lost and i am still happy

if the hurt comes so will the happiness

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

you are your own soul mate

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

Management must manage!

A cocktail will never be better than its cheapest ingredient.

I was always working; it's just that no one was paying attention.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

I have no plans to slow down.

I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.

John Travolta, I don't think anybody would not jump at a chance to work with a guy like him because he's gone from 'Grease' to 'Face Off' to, he's gonna do 'Dallas.' I mean, he's so great in his range, and he's truly a legend and a pro in our time.

The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind that you are so nervous about putting down on paper that you lock the Word file with a secret password and encrypt it - and all of it.

I don't think I'm a star or a celebrity or any thing like that.

We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.