Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.

We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.