The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.