People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.

Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!

Never be afraid to ask. The worst you'll get is 'No' but maybe you'll get a 'Yes'.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.