You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

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.

As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stifled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

Progress is the ultimate motivation.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man