Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.