One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.