Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

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

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

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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