We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.

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.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.

Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.