One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

To know another, and to be known by another--that is everything.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.