“Because our value is a gift, we don't have to prove ourselves, only to express ourselves...”

“Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.”

“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

“It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.”

“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”

“We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.”