I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

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.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

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

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.