"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"We do not remember days, we remember moments"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"