Speak your mind, even though your voice shakes.

The worst indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind — even if your voice shakes.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Few people know how to be old.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.