Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?

You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.

For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.