We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.

Old friends are best.