When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.