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

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

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

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 have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

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.