Though nature be ever so generous yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur the work cannot be perfected.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

To be perfectly honest I think that as I'm growing older I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

India saw from the beginning and even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance she never lost hold of the insight that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas imagery for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting for one who sees quickly and acts decisively accurately.

Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.