I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

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.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Great. Relationship advice from one of America's most wanted.

Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Science rules!

I am healthy because of my strict diet. I can eat anything, but I don't eat everything.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.