My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life..

Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse, but an af….

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling o….

Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she….

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence..

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of lov….

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gathering….

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom..

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of..

What is done can never be undone..

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed..

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases.

Successful women don't sleep until noon..

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work.

At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at al….

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on th….

Elizabeth studied the blurry tabloid photo, which showed her cousin Mary Stuart leaving a Paris disco at dawn, drunkenly clinging to the arm of a Fre….

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not do….

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble..

If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer..

We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the acc….