Katharine Graham Quotes

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

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

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I was born looking older - and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

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

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

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

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

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.

I want to age with some dignity.