I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity, she replied, "Red meat and gin."
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.