At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom innocence with understanding and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Old age is no place for sissies.