“Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.”

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.

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

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

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

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

I never thought I was funny. I don’t THINK funny.

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

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn’t top I Love Lucy, and I’d be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

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

Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.

People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Good things aren’t supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

You are the only real obstacle in your path to fulfilling it.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.