If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Getting old is not for sissies.

Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

I am a conduit of happiness and abundance. It comes to me effortlessly so I can give it away with love.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

You can communicate by responding with your body or with a hand clap, with a laugh or with a smile, with non-verbal communication.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

God forever geometrizes.

Mister, we deal in lead.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.