If you're in a good state, old age can be the most beautiful time in your life - it's only then that you are aware how extraordinary it all is. I've always been an optimist and I believe that laughter is a wonderful thing.

Every night, when I go to sleep, I think I've had another wonderful day, and tomorrow I will repeat it all over again.

Alice Herz-Sommer 2008 at the age of 104