I do not recall spending long hours in front of a mirror loving my reflection.

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 quit when you encounter an obstacle.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

Unfair and unkind behavior in exchange for your loving efforts is the rule rather than the exception

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way