Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
