... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.

Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.

I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to start looking at life in a different way.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

Spring is my sweetheart.

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.