Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.

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

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.