“the only way to experience love is to give it.”

“Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.”

“It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”

“Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.”

“If only he knew how little I cared about living.”

“The urge to cut still pulled at me. Would I always have this urge? I wondered. Would I be like an alcoholic constantly fighting the desire to drink?”

“You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared. ”