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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

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

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.