A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

I'd rather dance than eat.

I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.