"Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude."
"When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too."
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
"What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice."
"We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching."
"The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now."
"We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim."
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
"It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security."
"When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too."
"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others."
"But total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept."
"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way."
"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."
"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future."
"Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea."
"Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish."
"Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone."
"Him that I love, I wish to be free - even from me."
"We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching."
"The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now."
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."