True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

I may not believe in God, but I still fear him.

Loneliness is a very real thing, but it only means even you don't want to be with yourself

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.