... as long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

all my wealth is in my memories.

the trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

Cheese!" I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

Peaceful is he who is living in the moment, but not in the past nor in the future.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee do not do that to them.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.