Quotes from Danielle Steel

I'm a human rights person. I don't think people should be unfair to men or women.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

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?

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.

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

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!

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

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.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

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

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

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.

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

It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.

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

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 think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.