My brain is much more easily fatigued now, and I have forgotten lots of things, but I think on the whole that it is much clearer than it was. The simile is that, if the level of the sea of forgetfulness rises over a landscape, the peaks of the mountains that remain above the surface stand in clearer relationship than when you could see all the intervening landscape. Konrad Lorenz I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of life it may occur. The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. William James Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.