The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
“Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety”
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”
“Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.”
“Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.”
“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
“The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.”
“So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.”
“At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”