Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.

Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain read more

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.