Tom Stoppard Quotes

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

I think older women still have a full life.

You can have a full life after 50.

I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

The key to longevity is to interact with other people.

To me, 60 isn't old. It's a blessing to have my health. I still feel like I'm in my 30s or 40s.

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible — and it is completely within reach.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

Life is long if it is full.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.