"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

“Love is having endless support from my husband and the hugs and kisses from my kids.”

Source : "RHOBH’s Kristen Taekman: Parenting, Collaborating, Evolving". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I never worked on anything so hard in my life [like my book 'Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos'], including the Bar exam. The only other thing I could compare it to is having four babies by age 24. That was hard.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

“There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.”

“Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.”

“Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.”

“Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.119, Vintage

“When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.”

“In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.”

Source : " Tourist finds 'paradise' in space", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2001.