The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

We always crave what we don't have.

I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain.

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.