Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
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.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Love yourself first and everything falls into line.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.
Responsibility is the ability to respond.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
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.
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
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.
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.
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 am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.