To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.