I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor…

I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was…

— Albert Einstein

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

— Tallulah Bankhead

In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after his death,…

— Jennifer Grant

Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply…

— James Hillman

“When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her,…

— Abraham Verghese

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were…

— Gene Tierney

My later years are my treasure years.

— Louise Hay

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after…

— Sue Sanders

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with…

— Johnny Depp

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently…

— Elsa Maxwell

“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality…

— Louis L'Amour

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

— Joan Didion

“For however one may come in later years to reassess one’s achievements, it is always a consolation to know that one’s life has contained…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The good news is that even a bad and painful childhood may be put behind in our later years.

— Kumar Anupam