Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.Collection: Money
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.Collection: Health
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.Collection: Intelligence
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.Collection: Insecure
Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.Collection: Raw Materials
Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.Collection: Independent Women
Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.Collection: Sex
If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.Collection: Sex
Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!Collection: Hate
Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.Collection: Brain
The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.Collection: People
good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhereCollection: Funny
If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.Collection: Sex
I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!Collection: Marriage
The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuffCollection: Beautiful
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.Collection: Kindness
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.Collection: Years
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.Collection: Inspirational
Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.Collection: Important
If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.Collection: Matter
Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.Collection: Realizing
The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.Collection: Men
My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.Collection: Mother
Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.Collection: Love You
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?Collection: Trying
Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.Collection: Sex
I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!Collection: Book
It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.Collection: Beautiful
There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.Collection: Special You
I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.Collection: Nice
I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.Collection: College
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.Collection: Funny Love
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.Collection: Friendship
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.Collection: Recognition
The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.Collection: Real
You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.Collection: Better Life
Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.Collection: Two
My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.Collection: Girl
Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.Collection: Blow
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.Collection: Glasses
Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.Collection: Trying
Talkers expand like bread dough.Collection: Talking