I can't help from making money, that is all.

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.

What you are going to do today should assume a bigger shape than what you have done yesterday.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.