faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.