Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

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

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.

From where I sit now, I like the looks of tomorrow.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.