Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

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.

Consistency builds trust, confidence builds character.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.