Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

So setting up automatic savings plans, and buying insurance as opposed to buying a new thing. The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.

A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

I think we need to think about our physical activity as a reward, as something enjoyable and something we look forward to doing, not something that we regard as self-flogging.

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.