To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.