Isabel Allende

"Money is energy; use it wisely."

"Health is the silence when the body works properly."

"Adventure is the name we give to the unknown."

"Imagination is the beginning of all creation."

"History teaches us where we have been, not where we must go."

"We are made of all those who have been before us. There is no escape from that."

"I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of her memory still beat in my blood."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."

"Women have been trained to accept crumbs as cake."

"I write to remember, and in remembering, to understand myself."

"Magic is the only word for it. There is no rational explanation."

"The longer I live, the more I realize that nothing is ever too late."

"Fear is something to be overcome, not something to be avoided."

"In the end, we are all alone, but that solitude need not be loneliness."

"Love is a force that connects all living beings and makes us human."

"The purpose of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we alone can say."

"Age is not a number, it is a collection of experiences and wisdom."

"To be born a woman is to be born into a struggle for identity."

"Every person carries their own universe within them."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"I believe in the power of storytelling to transform lives and nations."

"Compromise is not the absence of principle; it is the art of living together."

"The most important thing is not what happens to you, but how you respond to it."

"Memory is a palace, and we are the guardians of our own stories."

"In every woman there lives a warrior waiting to be awakened."

"Passion is the bridge between dreams and reality."

"To forgive is not to forget; it is to remember and choose differently."

"The greatest love is the one that allows you to be completely yourself."

"Change is the only constant, and resistance makes it painful."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."