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.

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

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

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

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

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

the human heart clings - even to its pain.