My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

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.

Hope is an undiscovered disappointment

Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.

Home was more about people than a place.

I would prefer to be in a place where I'm appreciated.

People are better inside in your head. When you're longing for them, they're perfect.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.