Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.