To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

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

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.