No vice is so bad as advice.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Only a few things are really important.

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The sacredness of solitude is spiritualty

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.