Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

With 100% confident, courage and commitment, anything is possible.

Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.

It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.