No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn’t wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.