As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

But nothing happened there now of a nature to provoke a disturbance. There were no complaints to the management or the police, and the dark glory of the upper galleries was a legend in such...

It’s my birthday, by the way, and as of 2:05 this morning (the time of my birth in the middle of a snow storm on the Fort Dix army base in New Jersey) I’m 52...

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Your best is good enough.

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status–what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.

The bride’s about to throw her bouquet,” Mom told me the day after she turned 96. “Come on, June, get me up there!” (She stole the bouquet and kept it.)

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

You’ll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you...

•Judge less–or at least later.•Give new ideas and images a chance.•Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.•Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.•Expect to discover something delicious every...

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)