Gracie Allen

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

"The key to wisdom is acknowledging that you know nothing."

"I wish I'd given more thought to my life's destination, but I got distracted."

"The most terrible thing you can do is judge someone by their appearance."

"In my house, I'm the boss. My wife is just the decision maker."

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. But you can make him wish he had."

"Never burn your bridges unless you know you'll never need to cross that river again."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"I have nothing but confidence in your ability to do wrong."

"They call it a lucky break. I call it hard work."

"Women want men to be mysterious. It's not that hard—just don't tell them anything."

"The secret to staying young is to lie about your age."

"A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, and that explains why most people are not geniuses."

"The most important thing in life is to find out what you love."

"I would love to say I was the catalyst, but I wasn't."

"Every day brings new choices."

"The only function of ego is to make you feel separate from everyone else."

"If you really love someone, you'd let them go."

"The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience is the moment we begin to limit ourselves."

"I never go anywhere without my husband. He has a problem; I'm a solution."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"If you're not failing, you're not taking enough risks."

"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness, you'll never find it."