The best Quotes by Sidney Sheldon

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.

Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die

You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.

Village idiot? Hello, Chicago is a city, not a village, and the best city in the world!

Looking at Chicago from outside the city in daylight is one of the most depressing sights in the world.

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Illinois - and that's pretty much the same thing.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.