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.

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

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

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

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

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

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.