Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

The weight of this sad time we must obey; speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.