When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

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

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

I think that I’m perfect.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Compliment three people every day.

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

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

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

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.

How young can you die of old age?

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

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

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

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

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.