Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The telephone which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations has a romance of its own.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty a cat lady.

We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

We are people with all the hopes dreams passions and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you don't change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.

Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.