“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“We cannot withdraw love without damaging ourselves. I have been badly hurt again but I see this morning that it does not really matter because I perceive the truth. Rage is the deprived infant in me but there is also a compassionate mother in me and she will come back with her healing powers in time.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”

“The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.”

“It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.”

“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”

“Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.”