I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Let me hear your body talk.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.

We all have the time we need to tell our stories.

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.