If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.

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.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

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.