forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Explore new avenues and look for ways to have a greater, much more influential impact on the world around you.

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.