“We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us. ”

“as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We”

“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”

“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.”

“Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.”

“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.”