Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.