Age as an issue is one big fat oxymoronic mess…because you can’t come to any one conclusion about age. You can’t take any one position: not in employment, not in political picks, not in your own expectations about when you’ll hit your stride, when you’re in your prime and which…

“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.”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“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.”