Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.