“Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ‘now,’ is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is…

“If I quit today – I see these people. They spend a whole week planning their haircut. That is not my idea of living. I’m tap dancing to work everyday…It doesn’t get better than that.”

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”