ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter in yourself that is its due, for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate. But if you do not clear a decent shelter for your sorrow, and instead reserve most of the space inside you for hatred and thoughts of revenge-from which new sorrows will be born for others-then sorrow will never cease in this world and will multiply.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.