“We are the wining fighters we are today because we are the products of rougher times that, didn't break 'self-respect' during tested periods.”

“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”

“We didn't have time to go tobogganing, because we didn't have the toboggan.”

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

“...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?”

“If we lose love and self respect for each other,this is how we finally die”