Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

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

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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

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

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

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.