I need you because I love you.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.