Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

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.

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

I cry out for order and find it only in art.