Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

The first wealth is health.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.