“Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem”

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

“Remember me for these days, not the old ones.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.”

“She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.”