“In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develo…” — Gail Sheehy

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.