Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. – Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958

Instead of bewailing a lost youth, a man nowadays begins to wonder, when he reaches my ripe age of forty-two, if ever his past will subside and be comfortably by-gone. – D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of mans adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. – E. B. White