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

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.