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.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

I don't wase time thinking, 'Am I doing it right?' I say, 'Am I doing it?'

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

When you strip all of this down it's just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him...Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.