I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

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.

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home, " I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you, " he says.

websites should look good from the inside and out

Behold we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.

Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.