“Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?”

“For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.”

“One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.”

“We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.”

“It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.”

“But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?”