Old age is 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.

You were a pain, then. You still are. You’re just a different kind of pain to me.

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)

During the course of your temporary hurdles, keep searching for a tad of optimism

While chasing the moon that was about to set, she missed the sunrise.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.