But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

You must know what to do with your time if you must fulfill your purpose on the earth.

Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?

Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.