“I’m very much in acceptance of what I look like and I own what I think and feel. And that, to me, is what maturity is. You own what you think and feel. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean….

“I used to be young but I got over it.”

“You can’t be the kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

“In my experience, most of us age away from brain and ambition toward heart and soul, and we bathe in relief that things are not worse.”

“Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstances, you have to remake your life.”