“Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there’s always new stories…And as long as people want me to tell them, I’ll be there doing them.”

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid to change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”