Helen Hayes quotes
“The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.”
“Through the years I have found it wonderful to acquire, but it is also wonderful to divest. It's rather like exhaling.”
“Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned... My faith has wavered but has saved me.”
“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the...” (continue)(continue reading)
“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success'.”
- La trovi in Spare Time in Hollywood
“I can't stand the guilty feeling of taking life easy. Yes, I could play for a season in New York - my farm is only 20 miles away - and then relax, but I not only become bored but down right ill.”
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
“If you rest, you rust.”
“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper
things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing
and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."“When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and
tolerance with your morning coffee.”
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