Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.