My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

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.

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

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

Time is the greatest wealth

This is THE most romantic thing that has ever happened to me, and it involves both drugs and a toilet.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.

Let's be honest: it's not like I'm not making a good living that the whole family benefits from. No one talks about my foul mouth when we're all in Aspen for Christmas.

It's very easy for people to be critical of President Obama's first term, but let's face it, he didn't exactly inherit the country in the best shape.

Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.