I never weep over lost money, for I figure I'd rather go to the poorhouse once than go there every day.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

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.

I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

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

I'll have my double chins in privacy.