A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Considering the alternative. . . it's not too bad at all.

When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

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.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

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