To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
I'll be one year younger having missed my birthday and my mirror confirms it; so what's wrong with that.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday. '