C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.

Daniel, I did not know what I wanted when I was a girl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our...

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

But I wonder if there is a place I fit in?

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy

In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why

Divine Dichotomy holds that it is possible for two apparently contradictory truths to exist simultaneously in the same space. Now on your planet people find this difficult to accept. They like to have...

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

A magic realm of timelessness had been inserted into time, an intensity of newness and presentness, of the sort usually devoured by past and future. Suddenly, wonderfully, I found myself exempted from...

Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

I went to Cambodia to be humbled by the pain of others, and I was humbled down to the ground.

There must be more than distant hopes to sustain the joy of life. Seize

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

She said it seemed like the only choices offered were to want to be what other people were, or to be what other people wanted you to be.

Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.

Her very difficulty created friction, and friction led to satisfaction...

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. When I first reached through to it, I thought the Soul of the World was perfect. But later I could see that it was like other...

I will at least have gained one ver

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be...

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to be wrong?

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Received a gift - it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my twenty-five years of life. Does your husband make you a better person? Edra asked. There I was...

Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a...

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

I find people confusing.