“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

“Our true passions are selfish.”

“We're all selfish. It's an age thing. We go spotty, disobedient and daft. But most of all, we go selfish”

“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“All love may begin by being passionate, especially for younger people. But in the process of living together, they have to learn and practice love, so that selfishness--the tendency to possess--will diminsh, and the elemetns of understanding and gratitude will settle in, little by little, until their love becomes nourishing, protecting, and reassuring," (41).”

“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”