"When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully."

"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides."

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."

"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength."

"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me."

"I grow more intense as I age."

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."

"People age even when you're not looking."