All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

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.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

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.