The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.