The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

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

Never one thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them merging into one perfect whole.

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.