Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

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

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.