To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes
US author & physician (1809 - 1894) The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Anonymous I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles
US actor & director (1915 - 1985) You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003 I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003 There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003 As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003 The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. Dorothy L. Sayers, O Magazine, September 2003
English mystery author (1893 - 1957) I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life. Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003 | 
