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“I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid, this thirsty, this alone". "I haven't been a good leader, but--people are counting on me to take them to safety. I don't know if I'm twelve or twenty or if I'm twenty and I don't think age matters anymore------- There is a way out. I will find a way out.”

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

“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 defeated age.”

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”

“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”