I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

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.

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

To reject the Holy Scripture is to reject the Holy Spirit.

Jack may’ve been deceitful by blood and a liar by nature, but hot damn holy honeysuckle, he knew how to kiss.

The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, while the houses were white shells in a rounded grotto, pricked here and there by a great orange sun.

Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.

Never play peek-a-boo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"