I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

We will never have peace without friendship around the world.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.