“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”

“We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.”

“I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.”

“ The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”

“Years dwindle, a countdown in reverse — many scratch Bucket Lists of all not done to be done. Not I — No lists of incomplete dreams, not because I have none but because they no longer matter — I have what I need, the rest is waste —a lesson of age…

“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks, and public works.”