To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.