Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

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.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.