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

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.

It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn’t understand either men or percentages.

Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

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

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity.

Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

If you have strong faith, your God will love you.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Without a game plan and without a strong sense of faith in what you’re doing, it’s gonna be really hard to accomplish anything.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.