By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

No vice is so bad as advice.

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

Each would treasure going to hell if it would keep the other safe!

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.

In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Let the green girl go!

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.