When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Wrinkles happen to human beings.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past

Every moment is travel - if understood.

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

The clean tongue, the clear head and the bright eye are birth rights of each day

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

Life is short. Don't miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.