I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

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

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

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.

When you believe the truth about yourself, the truth that people are created to solve problems and overcome the limitations of their nature you make a name for yourself

society has an embarrassing history of denial

I've never been on a fad diet.

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

My mom cares that I tweeted a picture of my breakfast. She's knows I'm eating and I'm safe.

Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.