I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.