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.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

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

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.