Every seven seconds a person turns 50. "Whether we like it or not," says Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Finding Flow, "our lives will leave a mark on the universe." This is an awesome responsibility and an awesome call -- whether one is 50, 15 or 105.

How might we "achieve a society that continually seeks to develop the capacities of all its members and to provide them with the opportunities for exercising these capacities"? (W. White, Beyond Conformity, 1961)

"Older persons need a dream as well as a memory." (Rabbi Herchel)

Bernard Baruch said: "During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."