In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

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.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.