My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.

If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.

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

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.