Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Don't try to find a reason to be kind, just be kind, compassionate, and make a difference.

I love men not because they are men but because they are not women.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Fools die happy. The happy die young. The young die foolish.

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

There are more Physitians in health then drunkards.

Impossible? The word is a roadblock to progress!

If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.