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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.