"[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at..." - Quote by Sarah Louise Delany

“The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any credit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?”

“Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?”

“Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.”

“It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.”

“To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.”

“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.”

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”

“He who breathes deepest lives most.”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”