Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.