“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
“What I'm going to tell you now," he said, "may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the past DO seem incredible.”
“The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.”
“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.”
“The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.”