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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Look, we're trying to explore other options to your retirement," the whitecoat said. "You might be useful to us in other ways." Because we're not that useful dead,"Nudge said thoughtfully. No," I agreed. "Well, maybe as doorstops." The whitecat made an "eew" expression. Or those things in a parking lot that show where the cars should stop," suggested Iggy. He closed his eyes and went stiff, to demonstrate what it would look like. Also an option.

Never get out of bed before noon.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

And I am in retirement from love.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.