Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

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.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.