If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to be joyous. Every relationship should color your soul to a certain degree, don't you think? Every friendship, every love affair - each one should build up the chambers of your heart the way a sea creature builds the chamber of his shell.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.