If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. Pe…

- Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

- Brooke Astor

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

- Brooke Astor

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

- Brooke Astor

I have to go around and ask people for money, of course, quite a lot. And it's quite an art to ask people for money. But I think that I have to ask t…

- Brooke Astor

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

- Brooke Astor

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

- Brooke Astor

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

- Brooke Astor