In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience wisdom and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Whoever fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because if Europe comes apart the E.U. comes apart then you're going to have enormous impact on America that's a very big trading partner of ours and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Death comes not to the living soul nor age to the loving heart.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought.

A man growing old becomes a child again.