I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.

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.

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.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

The emotional findings, then, suggest that to gain the most benefit from writing about life’s traumas, acknowledge the negative but celebrate the positive.

When I'm onstage I feel changed.

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.