Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

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

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

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.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

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

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