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 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'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.

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad.“Yes, ” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

There are lots of things that I'd like to be, and nice just doesn't seem good enough.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.