You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.