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

Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

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

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

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.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

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.