I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.
Wisdom, Profound, Children
I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.
Power
I am half child, half ancient.
Soul
El único problema era que Francisca ya no era una niña, tenía 14 años y a esa edad aparecen los granos en la cara... y las inseguridades en el alma.
Love, Soul, Young
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
Soul, Old Age
You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.
Youth, Money
There really is no correlation between age and one’s bank balance. I’ve met wealthy boys and broke men.
Money, Wealth
Courage has no age.
Courage, Aging
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Poetry, Wisdom, Thoughts
Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing
Darkness, Philosophy, Poetry
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Passion
Raped at age nine by a relative and pregnant at 14 Oprah Winfrey,like many others have experienced the wickedness and brutality ofour society. Sadly, it’s an environment where blood lines no longerhold.
Society
The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.
Men
Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.
Men, Men And Women
You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind.
A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.
Men, Success
Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.
Humor, Men
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
Humor, Future
The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the “eternal present.
Young, Meditation, Future
...a great future behind him, already
Waste, Future