But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

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.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.

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

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

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.