“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

“Keep yourself to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.”

“Remember that the sun doesn’t belong more to a man than to you. Never let yourself to be put in the shadow.”

“Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!”

“Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.”

“You cannot escape your destiny”

“It is normally possible to be much more certain who your children are than who your brothers are. And you can be more certain still who you yourself are!”

“When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.”

“You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.”