When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

- Ruth Gordon

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

- Ruth Gordon

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

- Ruth Gordon

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

- Ruth Gordon

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

- Ruth Gordon

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

- Ruth Gordon

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

- Ruth Gordon

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

- Ruth Gordon

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

- Ruth Gordon