A great city is a great solitude.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.

No gain satisfies a greedy mind.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

Design the life you want to live.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.