“He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“… you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.”

“Be yourself, you might not understand it, others might not understand it, but someday, your purpose will be enough.”

“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

“Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link… He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

“Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you”

“Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honour with hers? Think! it is a serious thing.”

“You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.”