"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become."

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

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could not learn in any other way."

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imag…"

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the right thing; we are wondering whether He will do anything at all."