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

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.

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

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.

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.

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.

Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.