Quotes on Birthday

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.