The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

There is no accounting for human beings.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.