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.

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.