One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

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.

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

the four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry.