Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness.