S. Jay Olshansky

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.