I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies

I'm not a career woman.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

I don't like to fight.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.