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. |
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. |
I know there is nothing to say to change my situation. I want to apologize to Laura's father and mother and sisters and especially to her daughter. |
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. |
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. |
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. |
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. |
The crime of loving is forgetting. |
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. |
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself. |
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least. |
When you have done your best with what you know how to do best -- and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile. |
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing. |