I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.