I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

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.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.