I was taught to be anti-Jewish.

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

Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams.

When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.

I know a fat girl, she wears an orange skirt. You give her twenty dollars and you can do your work.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.