“We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.”

“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”

“In fact, we are often more interesting and sympathetic as human beings when something has gone wrong than when we are convinced of our own infallibility.”

“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”