If you explode onto the scene at a very young age there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America but I remember as being a very very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

When you get to a certain age there is no coming back.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it and given a family character as it were to the century.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age when the sense of curiosity has withered.