“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”

“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”

“If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.”

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.”

“And I though about people all over the world, having panic attacks. We all must, right? Even those with the soundest of mind must come face to face, sometimes, with the fact that we will die one day. What varies is how we cope with it.”

“Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.”