The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
Television is just amazing - how many people see it and how many people recognize you, and I think once you've had the opportunity and have been in front of the public, it's very flattering to have people come up and say hello to you. It's a tremendous industry. I've been in places where people come out of the woodwork. And you would never think - small towns in France or traveling through Europe - and there are so many of those people there that recognize you, and you've been in their homes. I find it to be a very flattering thing.
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.
Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.