“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.”

“You should give up.''Why?''For one thing, you'll live longer.''Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.”

“You love them, even though they're gone. In order to love you need to live, if you give up on life you can no longer love. You'd no longer have the capability to love them.”

“Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.”

“My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.”