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

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

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

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

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

I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.