“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.”

“I believe we’re mainly on our own in our last phase of life and need to create our own personal reason for being.”

“Even under the best of circumstances – in twenty-first century America at least – caring for elderly parents ain’t no place for sissies.”

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

“We will have many relationships over the course of our lives. Some of us will have them with the same person.”

“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”