Dalai Lama Quotes

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

It seems a perfectly normal thing to be 95.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

Turning 90 is not for sissies.

It's much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you're so doddery it's time you went.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

My grandmother is 82, and some days she doesn't even put her teeth in.

As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles' question, 'Will you still need me when I'm 64?'

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

The furthest I can see is me being 60.

When I get to a ripe old age then talk of me as a great cricketer.

I think I was born aged about 86.