"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
"Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off."
"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
"Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization."
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."
"I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity."
"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."
"At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'"
"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."
"Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."
"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
"Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
"Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth."
"I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut."
"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"
"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be."
"I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number."
"I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer."
"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."
"Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age."
"The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?"
"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."
"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."
"At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that."
"I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave."