Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.