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.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

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

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

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

No vice is so bad as advice.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.