“Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.”

Don’t forget to love yourself.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

My sorrow is my castle.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It is impossible to exist without passion.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Boredom is the root of all evil.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

What labels me, negates me.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

When you stop chasing a butterfly, it may land. This is a lot like love.

Let me gaze deeper into your eyes and thank the cosmos in disguise.

You only knew the parts of me you accepted in yourself.

Healing can look a lot like violence.

When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?

This body belongs to all those who live in it.

The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.