“I came to realize that my path to knowledge would not lead me to libraries, professors, universities, and studies. My path to knowledge was through living life and experiencing reality. I could learn plenty secondhand, but nothing was ever to surpass the experiences I had in the wilderness. All my knowledge of social, scentific, and religious issues has been acquired through personal experience.”

“It's not the current that will drown you. It's the exhaustion from fighting it.”

“I am the only storm that matters now, and there is no shelter from what I bring.”

“Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow”

“Don't let pain keep you from moving forward. It shouldn't stop your progress - it should drive it.”

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

“However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.”

“I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.”