The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Actors are one family over the entire world.