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

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.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

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

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

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

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.