“We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before anyone.”

“First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work.”

“We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we make our own misery.”

“If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.”

“I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.”

“Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.”

“How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?”