It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.