Toyah Willcox Quotes

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

Exercise is the fountain of youth, I believe.

The only difference between my work and the work of the whole medical profession is that I think we're in striking distance of keeping people so healthy that at 90 they'll carry on waking up in the same physical state as they were at the age of 30, and their probability of not waking up one morning will be no higher than it was at the age of 30.

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.