“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.”

“Old age equalizes — we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”

“I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.”

“Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there’s always new stories…And as long as people want me to tell them, I’ll be there doing them.”

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”