No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.