You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

God dwells within you, as you.

Every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.