The crime of loving is forgetting.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

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

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.

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

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.