"Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?"

"Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want."

"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."

"When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone."

"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."

"My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30."

"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."

"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

“Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.” 

"It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth."

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.” 

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” 

"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

“At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much—and I’m using it to light the torches of others.” 

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.” 

“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.”

All of one’s contemporaries and aging friends are living in a delicate balance, and one feels that one’s own consciousness is no longer as brightly lit as it once was. But then, twilight with its more subdued colors has its charms as well.