Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
[At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.
[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.
You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over.
An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.
If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
