"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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"Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old."
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
"Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."
"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
"May you stay Forever Young"
"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."
"It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him."
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."
"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'"
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
"Age for me is just a number."
"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."