The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.

There might be a few things in a woman's life that a romantic interlude won't cure, but I don't know any of them.

You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

We're not meant to fit in. We're meant to stand out.

When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.