Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience. ”

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ”

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. ”

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ”

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ”

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ”

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.' ”

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ”

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? ”

I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one. ”