What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

There is no question in my mind: reading Gandhi's autobiography changed my life.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.