Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

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.

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

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.

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

If it hurts it isn't love.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen.

Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

Real kindness seeks no return.

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.