If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.