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.

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

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.

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.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.