“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”

“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.”

“There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.”