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

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.

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.

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.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

My folks were farm people from Nebraska, so I like home cooking.

There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.