The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.

For the finite player in us freedom is a function of time. We must have the time to be free. For the infinite player in us time is a function of freedom. We are free to have time. A finite player puts play into time. An infinite player puts time into play.

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most.

I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

I am Nigel 'Benjamin Button' Benn, it's not about age.