In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.

Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.

...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.