For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Openness to my own dreams puts me in touch with the oldest, most human aspects of who I am; it helps me find my place in the community of man.

So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.