At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.
Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.
It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.
What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.
I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.
The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.