Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?