Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.