One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.