Friendship is a sheltering tree.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.