Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

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.

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

If you walk with the light of the world, you will have the light of life.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.

Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

I have a very low regard for cynics. I think it's the beginning of dying.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.