That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

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.

In school we learn to think alike, but true education is to learn how to think differently.

I'm not that bad, ” he said. “I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big—

All power lies in free expression.

I love you girl...to the moon and back.

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.

We thank God that our enemies are idiots.

There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.