Hope is a risk that must be run.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?