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

It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.

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 your faith in yourself.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we’d profit from them.

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

I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

Every fall is a chance to rise.

If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.

In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

Every fall is a chance to rise.