Being an adult is being grown up. And being grown up means losing some of life’s insecurities, like worrying too much about gravity.

It is attitude. The psychological and emotional impact of state of mind has a huge impact on our “exteriors.”

bien dans sa peau (comfortable in one’s skin)

prefer to paint first from the inside out, not from the outside in, as a means for aging with attitude.

Just the way once we’ve learned to live with air-conditioning (87 percent of US households have it) and don’t look to the off switch but to more efficiency and a wiser use of climate controls, the people of the world are not going to turn off cosmetic surgery, something that is more than four thousand years old.

because I was born French, I am often asked to share my tips on “aging gracefully,” an expression I don’t like. “Aging with attitude” is what I believe in.

In America, I live in a youth-obsessed culture and a results-oriented culture.

As a class we are the happiest between sixty-five and seventy.

I place myself in memory’s pictures. Indeed, looking at old photos, I am a time traveler, fooling time and living inside those photos in the present tense.