In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

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.

The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

That's not free market when companies go out and move and sell back into America. No, that's the dumb market, O.K.? That's the dumb market.

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.