“None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.”

“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...”

“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new question, then it is time to die”

“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.”

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

“I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.”

“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”