I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.
I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.
I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.
You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.
I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.
The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.
I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.
I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns. I wrote tiny little slices of life, sent them off to The Sewanee Review, and they always sent them back. For the first 10 years I was published, I'd say, "I'm a writer disguised as a mystery writer. " But then I look back, and well, maybe I'm a mystery writer. You tend to go where you're liked, so when the mysteries were being published, I did more of them.
I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.