"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."