“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

“To my mind it’s curiosity that’s the key to longevity. As long as you’re curious about what’s behind the door, you’ll always open it. And the more doors open, the more places you go, the more things you see. You don’t get smarter as you get older, you get braver.”

“Some people are old when they’re 18 and some people are young when they’re 90. You can’t define people by whatever society determines as their age. Time is a concept that human beings created.”

“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.”

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”