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

Only a few things are really important.

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

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.

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.

Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well.

The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bad Whispers in my ear :"Better of Dead" Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret Kisses me gently when i wake up in a sweat "boo!

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.