A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it Does not always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I am interested in now, particularly at my age.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you are very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you are younger. But I have not abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It is just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can not convincingly portray at this age.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

I have gotten crankier in my old age.

I have been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I am not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as gifted and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it is that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can not wait too long. It is the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one tongue do not move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

I am glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

Even from a very early age, I knew I did not want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.