Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

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

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

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.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

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