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

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

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

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

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

This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in the chrysalis of transformation from political wife to independent woman, the jawline has been chiseled, the dominatrix eyebrows weeded, the weight dropped, and the result is a woman who obviously enjoys for the first time being called beautiful.

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