"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."

"I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow."

"There are no ugly ducklings."

"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."

"Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it."

"I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?"

"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."

"No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray."

"The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive."

"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."

"I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for."

"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."

"I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?"

"Success can't be forced."

"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life."

"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."

"A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature."

"I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking."

"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."

"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."

"A charming woman is a busy woman."

"I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it."

"I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself."

"I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments."

"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."

"There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful."

"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life."

"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."

"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6."

"Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup."

"I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business."

"As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!"

"I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe."

"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."

"In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true."

"I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted."

"Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion."

"I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all."

"In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium."

"I believe you have to nurture your conscience."

"When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry."

"Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants."

"I'm not sure the public knows what it wants."

"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."

"Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture."

"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside."

"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."

"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly."

"Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home."

"Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character."