Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

When you're young, you don't have any experience-you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.