A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
