As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

We live in ugly times.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?