I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know

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.

In terms of monetary behavior, there are two types of people in this Earth: those who save and those who spend.

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.

Guard thy heart on this weak side, where most our nature fails.

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.