If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.

Have faith. Ye've so much for everyone else. Why not save some for yerself once in a while?

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

A grand old odalisque should never deign to turn housewife.

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.

I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction.

I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.