If We Don't Change, We Don't Grow.

Would That There Were An Award For People Who Come To Understand The Concept Of Enough. Good Enough. Successful Enough. Thin Enough. Rich Enough. Socially Responsible Enough. When You Have Self-respect, You Have Enough.

In The Many Times I Have Seen Hillary [clinton] Speak, She Never Fails To Dazzle Audiences By Speaking In Paragraphs, Without Notes.

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.

The Work Of Adult Life Is Not Easy. As In Childhood, Each Step Presents Not Only New Tasks Of Development But Requires A Letting Go Of The Techniques That Worked Before. With Each Passage Some Magic Must Be Given Up, Some Cherished Illusion Of Safety And Comfortably Familiar Sense Of Self Must Be Cast Off, To Allow For The Greater Expansion Of Our Distinctiveness.

As We Reach Midlife In The Middle Thirties Or Early Forties, We Are Not Prepared For The Idea That Time Can Run Out On Us, Or For The Startling Truth That If We Don't Hurry To Pursue Our Own Definition Of A Meaningful Existence, Life Can Become A Repetition Of Trivial Maintenance Duties.