I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.