Random Walk

“When you judge anyone you judge yourself. When you seek to punish anyone you are seeking to punish yourself. What you fear in others you fear in yourself.”

I feel as though everyone who leaves will be taking something away from me.” “They will, Guthrie. They’ll be taking what you’ve given them.”

“Poor Mark,” Lissa said after she’d left. “To think that all along he had this great gift for rubbing necks, and he wasted all those years wringing them.”

“If the others always have you for a leader, they’ll miss finding leadership within themselves. And we need plenty of leaders.”

It was a cinch, he thought, to be a leader of men. All you had to do was find a good story and tell it whenever the occasion arose.

We don’t do anything for you by forgiving you. And we don’t hurt you by withholding our forgiveness. We only hurt ourselves.

“We change.” “Yes.” “We don’t turn into clones. If anything, people become more completely themselves.” “That’s right.” “We walk out of our old lives. We let go, we open up. We forgive and forget, and one of the things we forget is who we thought we were.” “And we remember who we really are.”

“I guess he was ready to let go of whatever he was holding. It doesn’t matter what it was. You don’t have to sift through the garbage on the way to the dump, you know. Just so you haul it there and get rid of it.”

“There’s no order of difficulty in miracles. They’re all impossible. You can’t divide them into major and minor miracles.