Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day you're dealing with the mind of a child so it opens up that childishness in you again.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age the airplane the atom bomb the radio in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
My mother enjoyed old age and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
We of Africa protest that in this day and age we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Our age knows nothing but reaction and leaps from one extreme to another.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself though in another dress And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
It were a real increase of human happiness could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings till they emerged sadder and wiser at the age of twenty-five.
Better pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.