Quotes by Helen Hayes

“If you rest, you rust.”

“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 s...”

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

“Childhood is a short season.”

“The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And 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 permi...”

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

“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.”

“Stardom can be a gilded slavery.”

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

“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”

“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... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

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

“Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.”

“My faith has wavered but has saved me.”

“I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the trium...”

“Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”

“If you rest you rust.”