Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
We in middle age require adventure.
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.