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

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

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

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.

I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.