When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.