I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

I never turned down a mother role.

Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God’s grace gives us that freedom.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.