Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.

[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.

Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.