"A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations."
"Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old."
"Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone."
"My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid."
"They that have lived a single day have lived an age."
"This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence."
"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."
"I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person."
"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century."
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
"Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight."
"I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that."
"I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet."
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine."
"A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to be too old to play baseball with my son.' They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents' age."
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."
"One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age."
"I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't."
"When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life."
"I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend."
"The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything."
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
"Old age is a shipwreck."
"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man."
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."
"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."
