The sacred Scriptures grow with the one who reads them.

Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

O God$$$ You've done enough$$$ You've robbed me of enough$$$ I'm too tired and old to learn to love$$$ leave me alone for ever.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

You cannot conceive$$$ nor can I$$$ of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

The causes of life's history cannot resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.