We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

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

And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.