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

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

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

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

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

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.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

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.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.