You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

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

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.

With age does come experience and that can be a virtue if it is sensibly used. By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.

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

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