To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.

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

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

A friend is as it were a second self.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

I drink to make other people more interesting.