Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.