Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.