I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.