Old age ain't no place for sissies.

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.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple.

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.

A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs