Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

The gym and the treadmill is a good idea. But the problem is we spend so much effort in marketing messaging, deluding people into thinking if you get on your treadmill or you go to the gym, that's what you need. People who join a gym, the vast majority of them have quit within nine months and almost all of them have quit within two years. So if it's a longevity strategy, does not work.