I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged.

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

[About her meeting Desi Arnaz for the first time]: It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

Desi (Desi Arnaz) was the great love of my life. I will miss him until the day I die. But I don't regret divorcing him. I just couldn't take it anymore.

[About Edith Head]: Edie knew the truth about all of us. She knew who had flat fannies and who didn't -- but she never told.