“The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.”

“The older you get, the better you realize you were.”

“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

“Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.”

“When you get older as a painter and you've got the opportunities, the talent and the good fortune and have been provided with everything for getting old, then it's fantastic, because the same brushstroke that you put down is more mature and more poignant than it was when you were young.”

“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”

“You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.”

“I don’t think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get.”