“Love without conversation is impossible.”

“Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.”

“The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.”

“The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled sin...”

“I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.”

“She had learnt many things since the days of her first rebellion, and she knew now that this matter of the man friend and nothing else in the world is the central issue in the emancipation of women...”

“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self tha...”

“The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.”

“They thought they were so different, Flame and Ice. Enemies always do. The Soviets and the West, they were the same. They looked at each other and saw monsters; they looked at themselves and saw me...”