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

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence from every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“I think the desire to expand and acquire changes with age- driven in part by the need to downsize, but also part of a reckoning with mortality. One begins to accept the truism: You can’t take it with you, so you might as well pass it on.”

“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”