“Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.”

“Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain. ”

“Solitary muttering allows you to say all those things you don't have the courage to say to all those people who aredriving you nuts.”

“Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.”

“And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.”

“My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.”