“I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.”

“Heir to your own karma doesn't mean 'You get what you deserve.' I think it means 'You get what you get.' Bad things happen to good people. My happiness depending on my action means, to me, that it depends on my action of choosing compassion--for myself as well as for everyone else--rather than contention. [p.61]”

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”

“I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.”

“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”

“By spiritually I merely mean that I feel I have good in my soul and am inclined to follow the correct course of action given a prescribed set of circumstances.”