Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.