“Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.”

“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke”

“As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.”

“The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.”

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

“Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.”