I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.