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.

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

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

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

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

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