As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

There's a certain point at which you don't want to hear 'Happy Birthday'. You just want to pretend the day doesn't exist. Just remember what I'm telling you: 78 is not old.

I think of myself as a song-and-dance man.

O Time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, whereby all things are consumed!

I can't think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me.