Loretta Young
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"Loretta Young" was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 best actress Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter (1947 film)/The Farmer's Daughter, and received an Oscar nomination for her role in Come to the Stable, in 1949. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, Letter to Loretta/The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and reran successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe in Christmas Eve in 1986. Young, a devout Roman Catholic, worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.

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I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

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I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

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If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

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If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

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I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

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Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

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If you use disappointments as sort of mid-semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger-and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

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I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

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