“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle...” — Bill Vaughan Quote

“Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.”

“Muscles come and go; flab lasts.”

“The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.”

“At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.”

“I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it seemed like my country had come of age. For a country that had been isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, it seemed like we were becoming part of the global community. It opened a whole new world of possibility.”