'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.
Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.
I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.
Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.
The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
I've always prided myself on being mentally tough, but just because you're mentally tough doesn't mean that what's going on between your ears is always good things.
I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.
We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
Everyone's dream is to take a pill - take a pill every day so you won't have Alzheimer's.
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.
If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.
To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.
You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.
Lion's mane may be our first 'smart' mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.
With my children, balance was everything: being not just a workaholic, not only studying but taking time to renew and restore yourself and taking time to pay attention to your brain health and not assume, as we all do, that our brains are perfect.
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.
There is nothing inherently wrong with a brain in your nineties. If you keep it fed and interested, you'll find it lasts you very well.
My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
Our mental state fuels our emotions, and our bodies reflect those emotions.
We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.
People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.
