“Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition”

“When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.”

“Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.”

“You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife. - The Troll”

“Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

“When people tell you, "don't worry," it means you're already screwed. They just don't want you to worry about it...”