You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

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.

I'd love to design a school.

Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I never slept alone until I was married.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.

I'm a football player by trade. That's what I do, ... So I did everything I could to make myself a football player again.