Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you’re going.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.