Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

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.