Growing Old

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

-- Henry Emerson Fosdick

Winter is on my head, but spring is in my heart.

-- Victor Hugo

Age is a quality of mind.
If you have left your dreams behind,
If hope is cold,
If you no longer look ahead,
If your ambitions' fires are dead--
Then you are old.
But if from life you take the best,
And if in life you keep the jest,
If love you hold;
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the birthdays fly--
You are not old.

-- Unknown