I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

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.

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.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Y’all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.