The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

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.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the cares and pleasures of domestic life.

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

We have to have a candidate who is going to stand for our issues and our values and be a true, proven constitutional conservative.

We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.