Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

God’s word is lamp that lights my path.

Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.