To be somebody, you must last.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

Don't face the facts.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.