Quotes
- "The hardest years in life are the ones that live upon life itself." (age 64)
- "If you rest, you rust." (ca. age 60)
- "From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings."
- "I'm absolutely crazy about life...about the value of living and doing. I have a belief, too, that's there's another world out there and that one day I will be joining Charlie and Mary (the daughter who died at 19 from polio) and other people I love, and it consoles me to think about that."
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