“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“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.”

“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.”

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”