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?

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.