I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

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.

You need time, perseverance, and patience to develop the character and abilities required for success.

Deep inside, you know it. You're trustworthy. Sadly, you may come across untrustworthy. What are robbing your credibility? Find and fix it!

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

I think it is important to know when to be hard on yourself and when to let things go, but always keep going.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.