I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.