"I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write."
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."
"Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind."
"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
"In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts."
"The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age."
"I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations."
"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them."
"Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age."
"I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age."
"Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully."
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
"Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature."
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."
"Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package."
"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."
"Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?"
"At this age, I should be leading a quiet life."
"I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do."
"Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed."
"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."
"Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad."
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world."
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
"I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began."
