Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.

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.

What is it that you want to do, or put out into this world that is greater than your fear?

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Silence is a deadly weapon

A good title is the title of a successful book.

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings about.

Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.