“You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.”

To be happy – that’s all that matters.

Who thinks you’re as fantastic as your dog does?

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I’m a long way from the human being I’d liked to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn’t a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn’t help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

Is there anything more important than a child?

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

And I think that’s what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again.

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.