It wasn't by chance we met

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

To have the courage to have faith—a lot of courage, but faith in what? In faith itself, which can be very frightening, which can mean falling into the abyss. A human being’s most urgent necessity was to become a human being.

I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart - and nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.

How can you sleep at night knowing that you broke someone?

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

We don’t realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone.