Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

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

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

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

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

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.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

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

I've seen 'Mork & Mindy' a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.

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