One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

You have a choice !Deal with life's problems !or life will deal with you.

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

To our dismay, users who had been enduring several hour waits between jobs run under batch processing were suddenly restless when response times were more than a second.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.