Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I’m totally myself.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I was a thug.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.