I am rich from the bequests other gifted people have seen fit to leave to me.

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.

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

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

Next to music, beer was best.

Every life has a sound

Success is never final, but failure can be.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

You wonder if God has a place for a person like you. Find your answer in the Bethlehem stable.

Music tells no truths.