Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.

Death can come at any time to anyone. Everybody is equal before death.

I work out. I'm getting toned, too. The Wii Fit really works your body. When I get off, I'm dying.