“What fragment of truth will be mine?”

“Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.”

“What is truth? Truth is ever-changing law. We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours? (Crucify him! Crucify him!)”

“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.”

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

“I garner what remains of my self-control and tell myself the truth: Not mine, not ever.”