The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I like policy – call me a nerd.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

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

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

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

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

How young can you die of old age?

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

No, I can’t do rap music!

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

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

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

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 have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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

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

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

I hate the idea of genres.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.