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

Some of the most gifted people I’ve ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Luck? 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.

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.

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.

I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

I want a love that as deep as it feels, it breathes just as free.

Where they are walls, you soften me.

You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

And when it feels too heavy to go on being you, lose a bit of yourself in me.

When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.

The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

A zebra does not change its spots.