John F. Kennedy Quotes

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'

My parents were fine at 85. So 85's nothing. 100 is another thing. I have a friend whose mother is about to turn 101, and it's not great.

The increasing elderly population, rising expectations about what should be available, and costs of medical advancement—these are problems all countries face ...

Progress of preventive medicine as a preservative, made more effective by the progress of reason and social order, will eventually banish communicable or contagious illnesses and those diseases in general that originate in climate, food, and the nature of work…a time will come when death would result only from extraordinary accidents or the more and more gradual wearing out of vitality….Cannot the span constantly increase between the moment he begins to live and the time when naturally, without illness or accident, he finds life a burden?

Just 10 percent of the population—mainly the elderly—consumes about 80 percent of health care expenditures, primarily on expensive chronic illnesses and end-of-life costs. Historically, the longer lives that medical advances have given us have run exactly parallel to the increase in chronic illness and the explosion in costs. Can we afford to live longer—much less radically longer?

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

People use so much more health care when they live longer.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

At our age, you don't want to stop.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.