“We seem to think, when a big birthday looms, that when we cross that dreaded threshold it will bring with it a Cat. 5 typhoon somewhere in our body. But remember, we age one day at a time…And when you get there, it won’t be with the shock of having…

Age as an issue is one big fat oxymoronic mess…because you can’t come to any one conclusion about age. You can’t take any one position: not in employment, not in political picks, not in your own expectations about when you’ll hit your stride, when you’re in your prime and which…

“Some things you forget. Other things you never do.”

“Retirement is wonderful if you have two essentials- much to live on and much to live for.”

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways.”

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”