Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.