Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst