If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

We can’t have everything! It took a lot of growing up for me to realize this unalterable fact and to discipline myself into accepting it.

I couldn’t bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Gratitude isn’t a burdening emotion.

I’d lived by quotations, practically all my life.

I don’t know many ambition- ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn’t seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.

Glamour is something you can’t bear to be without once you’re used to it.

What you don’t know intrigues you more than what you do know.

I’ve always been scared to death of pain – afraid, even, to think of it.

I’ve learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.