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.

No vice is so bad as advice.

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

You're only as good as your last picture.

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.

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.