A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Genius, when young, is divine.