My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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.

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.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

See with your heart, not just your eyes

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.

I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.