Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

If we go the direction that many of the leaders of this country want and close the borders and discourage new immigrants, then we are ruining the possibility of new ideas and new experiences. ”

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party. ”

I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life. ”

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied. ”

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ”

I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life, they come back in a deformed way. ”

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true. ”

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. ”

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. ”

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. ”