There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

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.

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.

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

Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.

You. You are standing in your own way. And that means whatever it is scares you. It won't forever...but take your time. Nothing good was ever rushed.

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

Some of the best lessons come from a bad day and there's a few we can learn from today.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

If you put the right things into the universe, the right things will come to you.

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.