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- Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
- The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
- As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
- Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
- To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
- With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
- The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
- Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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