Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.

Never cut what you can untie.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life - don't let the moments slip through your fingers like a fistful of…