Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.