I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

One person can make a difference, even if it takes forty years.