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When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Remember Judy Garland? She retired 40 times.

I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore, I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment there is the right time to call it an end.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.