God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

To love is to be vulnerable.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

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

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Always winter but never Christmas.