Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

My only true harmony lies deep within my soul, wherever that is. I know that somehow I am in tune with the universe.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

I have reached a state in life where I can buy a whole house full of chairs and can bump into them until they are black and blue

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

Spread your smiles like the sunshine to cheer the world with love and joy.

Heaven on earth is found in a mother’s heart.

They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.