Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

[On being the oldest living human being:] God must have forgotten me.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

I'm not afraid of anything.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.