Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.