I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

Self-respect is the root of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.

Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day.

I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality... you shop.

The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.