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

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

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.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

No part of your experience is wasted. Everything you've experienced so far is part of what you were meant to learn.

Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.