The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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

The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

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

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