"We are what we believe we are."

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"We are told that God is love. But when we think of love, we think of something soft and gentle. God's love is a consuming fire."