If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Kindness kindled the love in human heart.

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little

There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

God not only sees where you are, He sees where you can be.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

You're the kiss that puts my soul at ease.

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.