The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

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.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.

Things are seldom what they seem.