"Fame is like caviar, you know -..." - Quote by Marilyn Monroe

“I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.”

“We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.”

“I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.”

“A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.”

“I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.”

“It's much more important to write than to be written about.”

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.[Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]”

“I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.”

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”