I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

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.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.

I'm a huge sucker for comfort.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.