“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.”

In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?

I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

Intrusive thoughts burn holes in my brain. I guess that’s why I’m so empty.

Old habits die hard, so fill up my cup and let’s raise hell in heaven.

I don’t like to stop. I believe when you stop, you die.

Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.