“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough