“There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.”

“Now his children are getting old too, like him, and they have children and nobody wants the old man any more and they are waiting for him to die. But he don't want to die. He wants to keep on living even though he's so old and there's nothing to be happy about any more.”

“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”

“The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.”

“you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own”

“Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters--or you're just fooling around.”