That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use).

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

He views life with tenderness and determination.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.