“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”

“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”

“She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”

“When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”

“But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.”