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.

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.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.

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

you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.