"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

"As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did."

"I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect."

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."

"We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us."

"Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful."

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."

"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."

"It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult."