“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid to change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

“I have shoes older than most of these people.” 

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”