“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”

“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”

“It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.”

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

“Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us---which is really just love for ourselves.”

“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.”

“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”

“The mistake we make after we have chased away the lie is because we love the truth so much, we make for her a beautiful and very comfortable bed.”

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”