“The corrupting influences simply recede in the wake, as a psychological feature has no choice but to shrink when it is not fed with consistently appetizing doses of attention.”

“He is made to believe, and believes without out a doubt himself, that he is nothing more than the sum total of these arbitrary characteristics.”

“Time is relentless and inexorably defiant of any request a man might make that he go back in time and remedy one or another of his alleged misdeeds.”

“The venture begins and he walks the path with simpleminded assumptions as he ignores a host of unpredictable factors.”

“The entire episode just now experienced was simply one angle of a facade that extends to far greater dimensions than he is compelled to consider because his mind has been conditioned to simplify everything into what is easily digestible for it.”

“It is in directly experiencing the negative that he finds the right amount of tension, the energy and wherewithal, to bolster himself to a correspondingly positive state.”

“His bare senses, for example, can continually be made to experience more; to see, hear, feel, and understand an ever increasing array of the plentitude and wealth of what is before him at this immediate moment.”

“Men begin from a blank slate and from there they need to produce evidence that they have any significance for history to note whatsoever.”

“…life becomes a test in which a man is asked to subvert his natural reactions with a will of intelligence that can perceive a wider field than simply that of the immediate moment.”

“His feelings are hurt far too easily, his thoughts jump to conclusions without considering what are typically far more shaded situations, and his body tangles up with tensions because it mistakes psychological stress for physical danger.”