“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

“Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.”

“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”