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

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 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.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

A man can never have too many friends.

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.