I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

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.

Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.

Buddhism helps me to have a healthy relationship with my body and spirit.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.

I am ugly but what I do have is charm.