I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

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.

What we think, we become.

Just because you have a lot of money in your bank account, doesn't mean that you should start feeling rich and spend it all. There is something called, "investment.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

Impressive claims are made far more impressive by making them exact

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

I didn't have a stage mom at all. I was the one who planned out my auditions and drove myself an hour and a half into the city.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry