Love builds bridges where there are none.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It read more

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, read more

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no read more

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.