Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation. ”

I haven't changed, but public life has. It used to be you'd go into a restaurant, and the owner would say, 'Do you mind if I take a picture of you and put it on my wall?' Sweet and simple. Now, everyone has a camera in their pocket. ”

My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy. ”

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife. ”

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ”

Experience teaches only the teachable. ”

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. ”

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ”

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? ”

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. ”