The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.
Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!
At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
The great thing about getting older is living life.
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.
As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.
When you get to be my age, baby, you have to pay time more respect.
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
I think when I was a younger actor, I did carry that stuff home. When I did ...And Justice For All, I was afraid to drop the character. But when you get older, you learn to go, "Okay, that's it. Let's go have dinner."
The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to stop myself and say, 'Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.'
I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.
I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
