No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers

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.

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.