"My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one."

"It is not always possible to predict the response of a doting Jewish mother. Witness the occasion on which the late piano virtuoso Oscar Levant telephoned his mother with some important news. He had p…"

"A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back."

"Love stands opposed to death. It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. Only love, not reason, gives kind thoughts."

"SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back ; Favorite-child sadness; Sadness of bg sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief ; What if? Sadness; Sadness…"