Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.