"One of the most significant fact about us may finally be
that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but in the end having lived only one."

"As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, wordly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable - something, as we say, sufferable."

"...or so he thinks, fleetingly and insecurely, the disturbing, changeful image of himself."