I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

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

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.

You see Jesus wrecked my life

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.

I am worn to a raveling.

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

I didn't tell him. And I never told her the whole truth. What would it matter? There was nothing she could do; nothing anyone can do or will do.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.