If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Example is the best lesson there is.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

Understanding is a two-way street.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

The arts in every field

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.