The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?