Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

Death strips all men of dignity.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.