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" As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. "

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" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "

" To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. "

Bertrand Russell

" My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. "

" There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. "

" Age is not our fault. "

Goenawan Mohamad

" Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. "

" Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end. "

" What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves. "

" Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical. "

" Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. "

" As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. "

" It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. "

Bertrand Russell

" I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. "

" My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age. "

Herschel Walker

" I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. "

" That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me. "

" Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. "

Meir Soloveichik

" A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? "

" A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright. "

" Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment. "

" Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. "

" After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces. "

" There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. "

" I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter. "

" Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. "

" Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. "

" Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. "