“Why do we insist on being the carpenters of our own crosses?”

“We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (...) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the road once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might indeed become neighbors.”

“When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.”

“Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves. ”

“Why do we insist on putting limitations on what people are capable of doing?”

“Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?”