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“One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.”

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

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

“Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.”

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”

“Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, so long are you young.”

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.”

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

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

“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.”