Rehearsals and screening rooms are often unreliable because they can't provide the chemistry between an audience and what appears on the stage or screen.

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.

More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.