Quotes on Birthday

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.