He fears all worldly setback for there is nothing eternal in him.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

You never know what you want or need until you are old, for old age is a mystery that is impossible to unwind until you step into its maze.

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

She had the distinct impression that something was beginning and something was ending; there were just so many days like this left to them. Before they knew it, time would speed up and the future would appear on a street corner or in a park, and there they'd be, grown women who'd forgotten how long a summer could last.

I know we lived among extraordinary things but, perhaps more importantly, in extraordinary times. People may or may not remember the heroes and the villains of our day, but all that the brave among us did, and all that they were, remains with us still.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.