My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.