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

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.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

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.

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.

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