Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

All I could say was, "I don't know what to do." I remember her taking me by the shoulders and looking me in the eye with a calm smile and saying simply, "Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.

He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted in Italian, and he put his hand on my arm and said, "Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.