Quotes to inspire and reflect

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

America is too great for small dreams.

Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

A man makes you feel important - makes you glad you are a woman.