The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

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.

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

If you don't speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don't really exist

An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.'She looked up from her book.'I would hope, though, ' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

They say the Japanese don't experience menopause or hot flashes. If that's the case why are they the number-one fan-producing country in the world?

I want to build a positive image that will last my career.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

No man is above the law.