It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!
You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.
In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.
The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness
How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?” Celia asks after a while. “Very carefully,” Marco answers.
If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.