“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.”

“Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. [...] A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. ... Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.”

“Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”

“Silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself...When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.”

“I knew life / Began where I stood in the dark, / Looking out into the light.”