Lay your wishes aside for a spell, and look deep into what you believe about yourself. Make sure your beliefs about your own life are anchored in greatness, in holiness, in worth, in grace, in joy, in excitement -in internal certainties rather than external circumstances. Because that belief? That's where you're heading, no matter what it may look like on the outside.

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.

We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.