The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.

It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

After age 70, it's patch, patch, patch.