Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.

Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.

Preoccupation with self is always a major component of unhealthy guilt and recrimination.

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others.

Spiritual greatness has nothing to do with being greater than others. It has everything to do with being as great as each of us can be. True sanctity is precisely drinking our own cup and trusting that by thus fully claiming our own, irreplaceable journey, we can become a source of hope for many.

It is in this solitude that we discover that being is more important than having, and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts.