It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt’s one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

You can paint your soul with any medium.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?