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"I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are."
"If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway."
"Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]"
"The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command."
"To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune."
"What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old."
"Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see."
"One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made."
"One spares old people just as one spares children."
"It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God."
"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age."
"So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age."
"One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing."
"In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either."
"It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming."
"The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age."
"When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye."
"If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any."
"The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it."
"Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old."
