“Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all?”

“It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.”

“Is my contact with others anything more than a contact with reflections? Who or what can give me the power to transform the mirror into a doorway?”

“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”

“Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.”

“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”