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.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.