My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

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.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

As you step out of your comfort zone, may life embrace you back.

I have shed many tears.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart.

People don't like to buy things that are going down.