I've got a good right hook.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.