She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.