Growth Demands A Temporary Surrender

We Must Be Willing To Change Chairs If We Want To Grow. There Is No Permanent Compatibility Between A Chair And A Person. And There Is No One Right Chair. What Is Right At One Stage May Be Restricting At Another Or Too Soft. During The Passage From One Stage To Another, We Will Be Between Two Chairs. Wobbling No Doubt, But Developing.

Leaders Are People We As Followers Want To Regard With Awe As The Fullest Flowering Of Our Own Possibilities.

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.

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.

Although There Are Many Trial Marriages... There Is No Such Thing As A Trial Child.