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

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

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

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

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

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.

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.