Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

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.

Life is loves shrinewhen you're my valentine.

..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

Many sections are taken up with political discussions and how the way of the ruler, the merchant, the householder, and the army interact with the Tao.

Priorities lie in your actions

I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.