Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Races are not won by the fastest athletes. Fights are not won by the strongest men. But the races are won and the fights are won by those who want to win most of all.

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.

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

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

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

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

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

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.