Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.