Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.

It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.

The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work.