The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart - first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, "Oh, you don't want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you - "those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow...we become more valuable human beings.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.