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. — Lucille Ball

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. — Lucille Ball

It doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

Responsibility is the ability to respond. — Lucille Ball

You see much more of your children once they leave home. — Lucille Ball

Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children. — Lucille Ball

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

I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be. — Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head. — Lucille Ball

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. — Lucille Ball

Whether we’re prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us. — Lucille Ball

I don’t know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes. But never a joke. — Lucille Ball

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. — Lucille Ball

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

It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. — Lucille Ball

The more things you do, the more you can do. — Lucille Ball

How to do half–hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with ‘I Love Lucy.’ — Lucille Ball

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

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