The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

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.

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.

I am determined to do my very best.

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully.

We don't need you to make us feel safe, Jake. Because you made us feel brave. And that's even better.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.