Danielle Steel Quotes

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever.

Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again.

No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

Things work out the way they're meant to

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

That is what touches me most. When somebody says: you really made a difference.

No man can take your freedom from you.

They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever.

Maybe some people are just passing through.

This is fusion, when two people become one.

They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most.

Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!

Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall...and then I can write.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own.

For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

I write about the things that happen to us all.

The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear.

Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.

Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them

People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

The records of adopted children are sealed in California.

That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!

I work too hard and don't play enough.

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

Never lend your car keys to someone you gave birth to.

It's difficult to talk to people... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you have to just jump off the bridge and grow wings on your way down.

I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading.

Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me.

And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

People are so obsessed with that these days.

As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will.

And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play.