Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.