Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.