"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
"I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy."
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."
"Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine."
"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."
"The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples."
"I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age."
"The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity."
"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."
"At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly."
"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way."
"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."
"I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't."
"I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked."
"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."
"The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it."
"My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy."
"With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic."
"Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent."
"I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life."
"Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart."
"A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age."
"We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude."
"The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age."
"I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age."
"We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster."
"Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger."
"Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had."
"I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard."