Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

Love is your service to humanity

Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /when I’m not being touched.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.