Valerie Harper

I really look at my life as blessed.

Keep your chin up, and don't go to the funeral - mine or yours or your loved one's - until the day of the funeral because then you miss the life that you have left.

I've had a lot of great stuff - spectacular stuff - happen to me. I've got to not be a pig about life.

Life is amazing; live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can.

Life does not owe me a shred.

Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever who have gotten lung cancer were no-time smokers.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

Live fully in the instant.

I had always wanted a steady job in this business, a show that lasted.