Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

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

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.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder an honorable character is your best calling card and that's something anyone can have!

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.