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

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.

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.

Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

Beware of the man of one book.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

I love to accentuate my eyes, so I'll wear eyeshadow and mascara.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.