Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

All significant battles are fought within self.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.