To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death

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

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

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

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.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

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.