Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

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

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

Teach your heart that this is destiny

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.