There's only one way to work -- like hell.

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.

In order to achieve a higher consciousness, one must get lost in love.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.

Detroit was really fun, FYI, in case anybody wants to go to Detroit. I love it. I did.

I'm not a very fast-paced person.

I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.

Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.