"Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration."

"I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be."

"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."

"Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order."

"Wisdom principle 64 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 94."

"Stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 60 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 91."