…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

I'm 85, and I'm still a sexual being, or a sensual being.