What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.