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.

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.

I'll have my double chins in privacy.

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

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

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

Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.