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

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

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.