I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

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.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

Without Justice, no realm may prosper.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

If Villa got another goal now it would change the scoreline completely.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.