81 Quotes by Helen Hayes

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.

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 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 permitted of eternity.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

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

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

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

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.

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.