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.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.