. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal read more

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my read more

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards read more

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live read more

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day

Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day