An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

The symbol of peace cannot be daunted by evil. I smile to show the pressure of heroes and to trick the fear inside of me.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process...

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions - the absurdity of the thing.

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.