Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it