The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The old are in a second childhood.

The old are in a second childhood.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the read more

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young read more

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -Arnold Glasow.

Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -Arnold Glasow.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of read more

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a read more

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.