"When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it!"

"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."

"The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

"You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes."

"You have to know the past to understand the present."

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

"When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent."

"Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements."

"I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s."

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.” 

“To learn is to be young, however old.” 

“Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion

When you get old, peace is about all you want.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.