Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations... In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
A grownup is a child with layers on.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one's body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It's not serious.
Now is the age of anxiety.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.
We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.
When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.