My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.