The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

Love is a power which produces love.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.