Quotes from Helen Hayes

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

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

If you rest, you rust.

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.

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.

From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

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.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

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.

You rest, you rust.

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

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

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

every professional was once a beginner

I genitori ti insegnano ad amare, ridere e correre. Ma solo entrando in contatto con i libri, si scopre di avere le ali.

From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.

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."

My faith has wavered but has saved me.