Maya Angelou Quotes

I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

18 to 19 is definitely a brilliant age. Equally, 50 or 60 should be good. Everything is done; you can relax a bit.

When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.

Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."

Sex is great, but when you get to be my age, you've got to pace it a little bit. Otherwise you get tired.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

One day you retire, and you get a social life.

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

I would say that I am having less sex now that I’m playing in Serie B – there is more to think about in this division.

Most people believe that aging is normal but nobody defines what normal aging is.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

I could be 80 tomorrow and I'd still be okay. It's all the way you think about things.

What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.