After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Honesty may not bring you success, but it always adds to your dignity.

Try not to be like those who hunger for financial success without understanding the difference between their wants and needs.

If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.