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

— Helen Hayes

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

— Helen Hayes

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

— Helen Hayes

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

— Helen Hayes

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

— 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.

— Helen Hayes

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.

— Helen Hayes

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.

— Helen Hayes

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

— Helen Hayes

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 resilience to push on.

— Helen Hayes