“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”

“A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.”

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. ”

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

“Caring for our own hearts isn’t selfishness; it’s how we begin to love.”