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

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.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

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.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

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.

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