Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.