Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.

Can the wounded heal the hurting?

Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them—and accept them—for who they were.

Life wasn't all neat and tidy. Along with joy and happiness, there were bitter disappointments and heart-rending loose ends.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

village, and it was a long time before I heard the last of it. Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.