On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.