Believing takes practice.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

People are more than just the way they look.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.