“It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me.”

“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.”

“It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.”

“The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. … We can’t change other people, and we can’t force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.”

“Each day I get a little bit stronger about getting weaker”