“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.”

I don’t want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn’t say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we’re not living up to it.

I don’t know why you people [the press] like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what’s her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don’t know how they got there.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce … some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Most girls don’t know what to do with what they’ve got.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don’t believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

We live to love you more each day.

You gotta have a body.

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee – a lot more.

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

I’ll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.

When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups

I don’t particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

I can resist everything except temptation.

People magazine with a bag of sour cream and onion chips always makes be feel a bit trashy. But good trashy.

We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.

Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?

One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Apologizing makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Expressing gratitude makes me feel vulnerable. And strong. Maybe there’s something to this vulnerability/strength connection, eh?