Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

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.

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

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 sharp knife of a short life, wellI've had, just enough time.

If you saturate your mind with positive thoughts, it will sustain you in any situation.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

To all my fans, thank you for your time and your love and your positive energy. It lifts my spirit and it means the world to me that I mean anything to you, so thank you.

I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.