When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'
My musical taste is like a 16-year-old girl's when it comes to working out - Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus. I love it all!
Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the 24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older.
I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.
Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Life should only be a competition between your new and old self, with the motive of creating a better you in the future.
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
