“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.

Never a button without a buttonhole.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

To achieve great things, we must first dream

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Until you have kids, you can’t imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You’ve got to be careful.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That’s what makes them children.

Children and young people are the future; they are our strength; they are what keep us moving forward. They are the ones in whom we put our hope.

The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.