“Too many men have died in the name of old age. I know, because my grandmother was one of them.”

“I am a very old man. How old I do not know. It is possible I am a hundred, maybe more. I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men do.”

“No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!”

“A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their grandmother had, their aunt, or some one in the family.”

“Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.”

“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.”