“When people say they don't want to get into a relationship, it should never be taken into face value because it is never really the whole truth. It is usually a vast collection of issues and fears and complications, forced to conceal one tiny hope lurking underneath it all: that someday, somebody will come along to discover, accept and understand and strengthen that feeble hope.”

“There are only really two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”

“There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”

“Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.”

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”

“We fear what we don't understand, because when we come to understand what it is we fear, we are forced to except it and that's that scariest thought of all.”