I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.