"Until a man knows he's a man he will forever be trying to prove he is one, while at the same time shrink from anything that might reveal he is not."
"Shame is that feeling that haunts us, the sense that if someone really know us, they would shake their heads in disgust and run away. Shame makes us feel, no, believe, that we do not measure up—not to the world's standards, the church's standards, or our own."
