Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.
I didn't like mundane life.
[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.
Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.
When I'm laid in my coffin, I want you to put a picture of my grandchild to the right of me and and a picture of my daughter to my left. That way they will be buried with me.