You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

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.

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.

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.

When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

For this lovely bowl let us arrange these flowers since there is no rice.

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

How terrible the need for God.