“Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials- much to live on and much to live for.”

“If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”

“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.”

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence from every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”