I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

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.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.