Helen Hayes

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.