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

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.

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

We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.