Never fear growing old; there are many who have never had the privilege

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock

Most of my dreams came true. (told to biographer Lou Cannon in 1991)

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

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