Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Live your life and forget your age.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

It takes a long time to grow young.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

History is the devil's scripture.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.