Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

With love, there are no rules. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.