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

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

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

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.

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

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.