“The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.”

“Cure for an obsession: get another one.”

“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”

“The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.”

“Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.”

“Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.”

“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”

“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.”

“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.”

“If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.”

“Money: power at its most liquid.”