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.

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.

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

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.

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

You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.

It wasn’t her first kiss, but it was the first one that mattered.

I don't think it's any secret I've never been an advocate for the Affordable Care Act.

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

One nightingale in an interfluous wood Satiate the hungry dark with melody.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.