If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -
There is a shade of red for every woman.
Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.
Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.
Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.
Laughing is the best calorie burner.
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Only the absolutely determined people succeed.
True friends are families which you can select.
It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?
...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Paris is always a good idea.
To be happy - that's all that matters.
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.
No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.
