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!

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

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

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?

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

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.

Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.