We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

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.

Well, love exists even you are muted and one another is blind

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.