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

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

The beauty of moving naturally, i.e. walking and gardening, is they're low impact. You're less likely to fall down and break a hip. Setting up your life so you're nudged into general physical activity every day is a strategy for your entire life from age 10 to 100.

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

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.

Diet and supplements and exercise programs aren't what is achieving longevity. Having a faith-based community can add four to 14 years.