Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

If my mind and body are still active, why should I retire?

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.