If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.

David was catnip and kryptonite to me.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.