“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…

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”