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.

Do not be afraid to be afraid.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

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.

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

The crime of loving is forgetting.

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