patience is an integral part of talent.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.