Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

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

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.

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

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