Laugh a little when the joke's on you

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.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.