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.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.