1,328 quotes found
“Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.”
“I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.”
“I listen and give input only if somebody asks.”
“I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.”
“Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.”
“The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.”
“Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.”
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.”
“Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.”
“Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.”
“A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.”
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defea...”
“Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.”
“When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security.”
“I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.”
“Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.”
“There are no old people nowadays they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead.”
“For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.”
“I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins.”
“We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience almost beyond our capacity at times but something to be carried high.”
