“We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”

“Old age equalizes — we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”

“When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I am past the hard part and there is a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I am concerned.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as you despair.”

“I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.”