My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

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

The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

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 ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?