“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”

“...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.”

“Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old?”

“REFUSALWhen you refuseto tell your weightand age,people knowyou're fat and old.”

“I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.”

“Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.”