I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.