Carol Burnett

"I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry."

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."

"It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers."

"My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away."

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."