“If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.”

“People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.”

“The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”

“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

“You cannot be destructive and be creative at the same time....”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

“He could do this. He'd survived boot camp. He'd survived combat and the harsh weather of Afghanistan. He could survive broccoli. Probably.”