One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we have done the greatest service to their propaganda by agreeing that that's what it is.