If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

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

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

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith