If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

- Jack Lemmon

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

- Jack Lemmon

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

- Jack Lemmon

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

- Jack Lemmon

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

- Jack Lemmon

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

- Jack Lemmon

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

- Jack Lemmon

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

- Jack Lemmon

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

- Jack Lemmon