The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

I'm not afraid of aging.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.