While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

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

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

True love stories never have endings.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

Where good and ill together blent, Wage an undying strife.

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Life is a little different from what you would read in the mainstream media inside the White House.

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.