I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Women come into marriage with great inflated expectations for what they want this relationship to be, and men don't give it that much thought. Men come into it with reluctance about being capsized or trapped or whatever their fear is. When you check in later, women are disappointed because their expectations have not come to pass, and men are pleasantly surprised.

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.