It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman
to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was.
Then I invented someone, and became her. Then I began to like what I'd
invented. And finally I was what I was again.
-Anna Quindlen

It is a great art to saunter.
-Henry David Thoreau

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way she
adjusted her sails.
-Elizabeth Edwards.