“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.”

“Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.”

“In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”

“...I am realizing that intention has a lot to do with how things turn out, and accomplishments don't always have to involve such a difficult personal fight or even campaign. So,too, how you tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in. In a peaceful, patient town, surrounded by friends, I am losing the threads of my story that have to do with disappointment, with regret, with difficulties with men. I am happy for the wonderful men I have in my life, would be happy for a new love, and am happy either way. That is a kind of magical thinking that works”

“It is not about how intelligent you are or how good you score in exam but it is about how helpful you are and how much you made people happy”

“People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests”