“To be essential to another human being, to be vulnerable, to have another assign themselves generously and selflessly is the ultimate expression of true love, and they understood how lucky they were.”

“I defy anyone who retains the least spark of honour to spit on the real, essential love of one human being for another.”

“They believe one becomes selfless in love because one desires the advantage of another human being, often against one's own advantage. But in return for that they want to possess the other person.”

“Society is more concerned with material possessions than it is with the true love and compassion of another human being.”

“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”

“Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.”