I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.
There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.
It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.