Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company."

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

"The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving."

"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."

"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"

"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."