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.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

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

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

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 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.

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