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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

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

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.