Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.

Sex is something we are, not something we do.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

One can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may gain a sense of inner peace through greater self-acceptance, through a more realistic perspective on one's relationships and experiences.