"Don't come crawlin' to a man for..." - Quote by Mae West

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

“Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.”

“[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.”

“I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.”

“No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.”

“We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.”

“If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.”

“It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.”

“Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.”