The best time to make friends is before you need them.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Every experience is seen through your mind's eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.

All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

I'm very scary. I'm a menace.