By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

Guns give Evil a means to expression.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.

Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.

I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty.