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When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.

In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

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

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.