“It annoys me when people say, ‘Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!’ Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be…

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.”

“The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

“Why hope to live a long life if we’re only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim ‘She looked ten years younger,’ or do we want them to say ‘She lived a great life’?”

“I think if you don’t live in the moment, then you become old.”