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

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.

According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.