Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Do not be afraid to be afraid.

When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.