Young man the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty then another for the next thirty years.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
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.
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision but never once have I seen him break his cool lose his composure or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.