“I think the nature of faith is love an love of the goodness in man.”

“...I vow that nothing- no law, no army, no faith- will keep me from your side.”

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

“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.”

“I am reminded of the belief of the ancient Sephardic doctor Isrealicus: that food must really be delicious if both disposition and body are to benefit.”

“Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.”