“We have become a nation incapable of living within ourmeans. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning ahome is not and never was intended to be a right. It is a reward forworking hard and saving up enough money to not only purchase aproperty, but to maintain and improve it.”

“Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.”

“We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].”

“The acceptance of the reality that we are in the Lord's loving hands is only a recognition that we have never really been anywhere else.”

“There was no way out; not, at least, in this direction. I was like a hamster that had climbed to the top of the ladder in its cage and found there was nowhere to go but down. But surely hamsters knew in their hamster hearts that escape was futile; it was only we humans who were incapable of accepting our own helplessness.”

“Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything...”