I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake.” Ragtime

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.