"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"