“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”

“The most difficult thing to accept is that we are usually the source of our suffering. For example, if we believe that nothing works out for us, we never pour ourselves into our goals and so they never come to fruition. If we have decided that people always leave, we never fully commit to them and so the relationship we have with them never becomes secure.”

“It is a most earnest thing to be alive in this world; to die is not sport for a man. Man's life never was a sport to him; it was a stern reality, altogether a serious matter to be alive!”

“By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.”

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”

“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”

“I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the things we need.”

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”