Lucille Ball

“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people.”

“The more things you do, the more you can do.”

“I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.”

“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.”

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

“I cured myself of shyness when it was causing me misery.”

“Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.”

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

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

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

“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

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

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“I'm happy that I have brought laughter to the world.”

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”

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