It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

Sickness begets chaos, which, through hard work and a touch of grace, leads to growth and resurrection.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

Be long sick, that you may be soon hale.

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

... the drama of sickness.

Illness knocks a lot of nonsense out of us; it induces humility, cuts us down to size ... When we are a bit scared the salutary effect of sickness is particularly marked. For only when the ... gate grows narrow do some people discover their soul, their God, their life work.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.