Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

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.

Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

Sanity is an illusion caused by alcohol deficiency.