As you get older, you want to simplify your life: family and friends with no drama, nutritional and exercising habits with no health risk, a neighbourhood with no worry about public safety and cleanliness, time online with no anger and outrage. A simple, but better life.

At twenty, you think you have the whole world figured out, then with every passing year, you become more humble, you stop jumping to conclusions, you stop judging people you actually don't know.

After reaching a certain age, you are no longer seen as an individual; you become an institution and are treated as institutions are. You are expected to behave like a piece of historical furniture, an architectural landmark.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

A man that lives from memories becomes old. One that lives from projects remains young.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

The foundation of maturity: just because it's not your fault doesn't mean it's not your responsibility.

The advantage of aging is that you become more decisive. Maturing is realizing that many things don't need your comments.

We mature with the damage, not with the years.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

The youth can walk faster but the elder knows the road.

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

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow.

Finding a place to die is an important thing to do.

Be a good ancestor. Do something a future generation will thank you for.

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

Youth is wasted on the young, but wisdom is often wasted on the old who no longer have the energy to act on it.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Age does not protect you from love, but love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.