I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.