“Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.”

“Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get...”

“True generosity is an offering given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. ”

“If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.”

“Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.”

“Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.”