“The ascendant rules the outer personality - the way a person actually presents to the world.”

“We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the outer person's defences: the intimacy of a love affair is a different matter altogether. And who might not feel just the slightest bit insecure under the gaze of a lover--a gaze which falls on birthmarks, on blemishes physical and psychological, on our imperfections and impatience, on our human vulnerability?”

“The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.”

“An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.”

“It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all.”

“Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.”