“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways.”

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence from every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”

“I think the desire to expand and acquire changes with age- driven in part by the need to downsize, but also part of a reckoning with mortality. One begins to accept the truism: You can’t take it with you, so you might as well pass it on.”

“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”